"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same
sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity
of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state.
Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development
problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age
and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the
issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared
conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property
regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I
and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire
shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things"
in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to
reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common
good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain
objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons,
and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of
public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century.
Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a
property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private
ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the
rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and
resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of
thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state
reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book
argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the
public" through the reform of property rights.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2018 |
| First published: |
2014 |
| Authors: |
Ekaterina Pravilova
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
448 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-18071-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-691-18071-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780691180717 |
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